'A dry run' nghĩa là cuộc diễn tập, cuộc tập trận (an occasion when you practise doing something to make sure there will be no problems when you really do it; a rehearsal of a performance or procedure before the real one).

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In a statement this week, it added that the HSE has undertaken one “dry run” of the new facility, which took place on May 17.

While nurses say one dry run simply isn’t enough, the hospital’s statement also insists they have not been told this by nursing unions before now, and they describe it as “regrettable” that the INMO spoke publicly before writing to management.